Crime and crash

Bangalore, April 29: Bruhat Bengalauru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Superintending Engineer K T Nagaraj, suspended six months ago on a charge of corruption, is back in the same post in the same Major Works Department of the civic body. But another Palike Superintending Engineer, S Prabhakar, who probed the charges against Nagaraj, has been shunted out of the Major Works Department and dumped in the

Udupi, April 28: A man was killed in a collision between a lorry and a pickup truck at Varambally coming under the Brahmavar police station limits on Friday. According to the police, the lorry was moving from Udupi to Kundapur while the pickup truck as moving in the opposite direction when the collision took place at Varambally. The driver of the pick-up truck Panduranga Kalkura, who was severely

Nagpur, April 28: An eight-year-old girl allegedly bought from West Bengal for Rs 6,000 and employed as domestic help by a couple at Nehru Nagar was rescued on Friday afternoon by team of Childline, an NGO, along with two constables from Gittikhadan police station. The matter is being probed by Gittikhadan police station. Cops said they were still talking to the victim and interrogating the couple

Gurgaon, April 28: A 22-year-old hardware engineer serving a term in Bhondsi jail was found hanging in the prison toilet on Friday morning. Parveen Sharma, a native of Devaria in Uttar Pradesh, had left an eight-page suicide note in which he had written his "only crime was that he was in love with a girl".Parveen had hanged himself from a hook using a blanket as the noose. He was serving a term at

Mumbai, April 27: A college student in Mumbai has taken his parents to court alleging that they are trying to prevent him from a sex-change operation. His father says the surgery cannot be treated as "a personal decision, and the permission of the entire family, which includes his parents and grand parents, must be taken. 21-year-old Bidhan Barua has told the Bombay High Court that his parents

Chennai, April 27: Love kills-and the Tamil Nadu police have evidence to prove that. The number of murders under the head 'lust and love affairs' has seen the biggest increase of 123% in last three years, from 155 in 2008 to 347 in 2011. While in the same period, the number of murders increased by only about 7%. According to police figures, family quarrels (440) and personal enmity (421) topped

Mysore, April 27: An elderly woman was on Thursday rescued from a cattle shed she was confined to for two years by one of her sons. Devaraja sub-divisional ACP Cheluvaraju told TOI police raided the house of Javarappa on a tip-off and rescued his 84-year-old mother, Malamma. Malamma, wife of Mariappa, told reporters she had not seen sunlight for two years. Preliminary investigation has revealed

Bhopal, April 27: In a bizarre and brutal revenge act, a man set on fire 10 of his guests, including four children, on Thursday morning just because one of the victims had asked his wife to sit in the back instead of the front seat of a car during a marriage procession two days ago. The man thought his wife was deliberately humiliated thus. The bloodcurdling incident occurred in Devtola village, 5

Sirsa, April 27: A group of stray dogs mauled a 10-year-old girl to death at Bahiya in Haryana's Sirsa district on Thursday. Residents said that 11 dogs mauled Seema and even attacked one Daleep Singh, who tried to rescue the girl. Daleep had to run for his safety. "They were so aggressive that I had to run for at least 100 meters," he said. The dogs attacked Seema near the fields where her family

New Delhi, April 26: Hours after Maoists releasedOdisha BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka, they have struck again. This time in Maharashtra. According to TV reports, Maoists have killed 2 villagers and abducted another 10 in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district. The Maoists have demanded the withdrawal of CRPF forces from the area and a halt to combing operations, say TV reports. The state govt has rushed police